Tapalapan

Tapalapan is located at a height of 278 meters above sea level in the municipality of Santiago Tuxtla (Los-Zac) in Veracruz (N-Z), Mexico. Its geographic location is at latitude: 18.531944 and longitude: -95.305833.

Map of Tapalapan

Population

Tapalapan is populated by 2354 people. The total population consists of 126 children aged 0 to 2 years, 131 aged 3 to 5 years, 261 children aged 6 to 11 years, 118 teenagers between 12 and 14 years and 145 aged 15 to 17 years. The number of adult people aged 18 to 24 is 270, in the age group of 25 to 60 years are 1064 people and the over 60 years old people are represented by 239 people.

Dividing the overall population of 2354 inhabitants in only three age groups result in: 636 people aged 0 to 14, 1549 people aged 15 to 64 and 168 people aged 65 or more years. The male-female ratio is 90.92 men per 100 woman and the birth rate (fertility rate) is 2.37 children per woman.

Indigenous population

In Tapalapan are known 1 people in censal housholds, where the head or his partner speaks an indigenous language. In the group of children 3 years and older 1 speak an indegenous language, 0 speaking an indigenous language but not spanish and 0 people who do speak both, spanish and an indigenous language. For the age group 5 years and older these numbers are 1, 0 and 0 people.

Migration

While 2303 people were born in the same state, 48 were born in another Mexican state. The total number of people older than 5 years who lived in this state between 2005 and 2010 is 2064, the number of those older than 5 years who lived in 2005 in another state is 29 people.

Disabilities

73 of the 2354 living in Tapalapan have some form of disability, activity limitation, mental or physical condition.

Mobility impairment: 41
Visual impairment: 18
Communicating: 12
Hearing disability: 17
Physical disability: 12
Learning and thinking: 0
Mental health: 5

A total of 2267 people is free of disabilities. Read about disabilities.

School and education

Analphabetism

In the age group of 8 to 14 years about 16 people do not know read or write and 269 of the group 15 and older are in that same situation.

School

Aged 3 to 5 years: 87 do not visit school
Aged 6 to 11 years: 8 do not visit a school
Aged 12 to 14 years: 17 do not visit a school
Aged 15 to 17 years: 83 do visit a school
Aged 18 to 24 years: 59 do visit a school

15 years and older

233 do not have any school degree or at most preschool.
426 did visit primary school up to the fifth class (incomplete).
235 finished primary school (6 years complete).
78 two years at secondary school at least (incomplete).
372 three years at secondary school (complete).

Adults

Within the group of adults over 18 years 341 do have a scholar degree after having completed secondary school or high school. Like Bachelor, technical schools, university, master or doctor degrees. This group divides into 193 males and 148 females. While the populations medium degree is 6.53, the male population do have a medium degree of 7.02, the female population one of 6.1

Economic characteristics

Economically active

The economically active population, people how are employed or actively seeking employment, is 798 people. 694 of this fraction are male and 104 are female. Economically inactive are about 1032 people. The active fraction divides in 729 occupied and 69 unoccupied people.

Social security and public health care

While 1773 people have access to one of the social security systems in Mexico, about 578 individuals are without health insurance.

Access to the services of the Mexican Social Security Institute IMSS have 490 people. 26 people do have the right to access the ISSTE, 1 find their security at ISSSTE and 1275 have access to the public health insurance, Seguro Popular.

Marital Status

About 453 people of the age group 12 years and older are unmarried or singles. The number of people who are married or who are living in a conjugal relationship is 1232 and there are 150 people who are separated, divorced or widowed.

Religions

The large fraction of 2047 people are Roman Catholics, 232 people are Christians, mostly Protestants and similar historic religions. Other religions like Judaism, Islam, New Age, Ethnic religions and even religious movements are preferred by 0 individuals and finally about 74 are without any religion or are atheists.

Homes

The total number of homes, private or not, occupied or not, with or without further information, is 702 and 619 of them are inhabited.

Private homes

The total number of private homes, with more detailed information available, is 702. With 619 occupied private homes and 80 unoccupied private homes. 3 are only for temporal use. As far as information is available the medium number of occupants in private homes is 2354.

Economic status

In Tapalapan about 35 private homes do not have any of the following goods. 478 own a radio, 547 have a TV, 458 own a fridge, a washing machine is available in 265 private homes and a car is available in 143. In 53 homes a PC is part of the standard of living. A cable telephone is available in 177, an internet connection can be found in 16 and 383 homes do have cellphones.